CELEBRATING 26 YEARS OF ROGER REVELLE
COMMEMORATIVE LECTURES
The Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture Series was created by the Ocean Studies Board of the National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to highlight the important links between ocean sciences and public policy. The series
was named in honor of the late Roger Revelle, a leader in the field of oceanography for over 50 years who spearheaded
efforts to investigate the mechanisms and consequences of climate change.
These lectures have been published annually in Oceanography, beginning with the very first lecture in 1999. Links to the
articles are provided below.
2025. Oceanography in the Age of Intelligent Robots and
a Changing Climate
by C. Scholin
2023. Making Waves and Charting New Paths: A Fireside Chat
with Kathy Sullivan and Margaret Leinen
by Taylor Goelz
2022. Bio-Inspired Ocean Exploration
by Nicole W. Xu and John O. Dabiri
2021. A Generational Shift in Ocean Stewardship
by Alfredo Giron-Nava and Harriet Harden-Davies
2020. The Story of Plastic Pollution: From the Distant Ocean Gyres
to the Global Policy Stage
by Chelsea M. Rochman
2019. Sustainability in Deep Water: The Challenges of Climate
Change, Human Pressures, and Biodiversity Conservation
by Lisa A. Levin
2018. Distress Signals: Historical Waypoints in Northwest Atlantic
Fisheries Since 1850
by W. Jeffrey Bolster
2017. Swells, Soundings, and Sustainability, but…“Here Be Monsters”
by Dawn J. Wright
2016. Managing Leviathan: Conservation Challenges for the
Great Whales in a Post-Whaling World
by Phillip J. Clapham
2015. Overturning Assumptions: Past, Present, and Future Concerns
about the Ocean’s Circulation
by M. Susan Lozier
2014. The Contemporary Challenge of the Sea: Science, Society,
and Sustainability
by David M. Karl
2013. Melting Ice: What is Happening to Arctic Sea Ice, and
What Does It Mean for Us?
by John E. Walsh
2012. Tsunamis: Are We Underestimating the Risk?
by Eddie Bernard
2011. Troubled Waters of the Gulf of Mexico
by Nancy N. Rabalais
2010. The Interconnected Biosphere: Science at the
Ocean’s Tipping Points
by Jane Lubchenco and Laura E. Petes
2009. The Once and Future Ocean
by Paul G. Falkowski
2008. Looking Down on the Seas: How Satellites Are Revolutionizing
Our Understanding of the Ocean
by Michael H. Frielich
2007. What Corals are Dying to Tell Us About CO2 and
Ocean Acidification
by Ken Caldeira
2006. Disasters, Death, and Destruction—Making Sense of
Recent Calamities
by Roger A. Pielke, Jr.
2004. Abrupt Climate Changes: Oceans, Ice, and Us
by Richard B. Alley
2003. Sustaining Our Oceans: A Public Resource, A Public Trust
by Admiral James D. Watkins
2002. Beyond the Freedom of the Seas: Ocean Policy for the
Third Millennium
by Michael Orbach
2001. Ocean Exploration
by Marcia McNutt
2000. The Oceans and Human Health: The Discovery and
Development of Marine-Derived Drugs
by Shirley A. Pomponi
1999. Contemplating Action: Storing Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean
by Peter G. Brewer